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BRBEGH LOADING FIRE ARM.

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WVILLIAM ANSON AND JOHN DEELEY, OF BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY OF WAR- ICK,ENGLAND.

BREECH-LOADING FlRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,907, dated April29, 1884-.

Application filed Nm'eniber 7, 15-83.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM Anson and JOHN DEELEY, subjects of theQueen of Great Britain, residing at Birmingham, in the county 5 of\Varwick, England, gun-makers, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Breech-Loading Hammerless and other Guns and Rifles,(for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 1,833,hearing date April 11, 1883,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to effect certain improvements in thewell-known hammerless or drop-down gun patented by us, and called Ansonand Deeleys patent, dated May 11, 187 5, No. 1,756, in which the cookingof the gun is effected by the dropping of the barrels for charging, bymeans of two dogs or lifters, the fulcrum of which is concentric withthe center of the ordinary joint, the dogs or lifters passing throughthe joint of the breechaction, and also passing through the back orjoint part of the fore end.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofdevices hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that our saidinvention may be clearly understood, reference is hereby made to theaccompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 is an elevation of so much of the breech of a double-barreleddrop-down gun as is requisite to explain our improvements. Fig. 2 is atop view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line a a ofFig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on the line b b of Fig. 2,representing the gun as it appears after discharge. Fig. 5 is a view ofthe under side of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 6 is a separate plan view of thedouble lifter. Fig. 7 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 8 a sectionon the line 0 c of Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a separate perspective view of thelower bolt, (1, (shown also in Fig. 3,) and Fig. 10 is a plan view ofthe upper bolt, 0. Fig. 11 represents the gun cocked by the dropping ofthe barrels and ready for loading, on the line b Z) of Fig. 2;

and Fig. 12 is a X0 model.) Patented in England April 11, 1583.No.1,933.

detail side view showing a modified arrangement of spring for throwingthe upper and lower bolts forward by acting on the hand-lever.

The lifters f f are formed of one piece of metal, the two lifters beingunited by the crosspiece 9, which forms a bridge across the slot in thebreech-action near the joint-pin h. The bridge also spans over the lumpof the barrels. lVhen the barrels are dropped, the portion marked 73 ofthe fore-end lever presses the lifters ff backward by its contact withg, and consequently their inner ends rise in a radial line with thecenter It, as shown in Fig. 11. The innor ends of the lifters being incontact with the tail ends of the hammers k, the latter are lifted tothe position of cock. As also shown in Fig. 11, the lump does not formany part of the cocking arrangement, but merely turns on the joint-pin,as in ordinary guns.

It is obvious that the liftcrf f, by a slight modification, can beadapted to single-barrel drop-down guns.

The lower bolt, (1, has an opening, (2, through which one of the lugs 1passes and enters the lugs at Z Z and the upper bolt, 0, also enters therecess cut out at 0, thereby holding the barrels down during discharge.The upper bolt, 0, and lower bolt, d, are simultaneously withdrawn, inorder to let the barrels drop, by pushing aside the hand-lever m. Thishand lever is pivoted at m, Fig. 2, to the upper bolt, 0; but thehand-lever is also pivoted at W to a fixed center. This arrangementcauses the pivot at m to recede when the hand-lever is pushed aside, andthis receding movement causes the upper and lower bolts to release thebarrels. The connection between the actuat ing mechanism of the upperand lower bolts is effected by means of the angle-piece n, the mode ofconnection being behind instead of in front of the breech-pin, as isclearly shown in the drawings, Figs. 3 and 4. The bolts are pressedforward, by means of the spring 0, between the provision p andthrust-block q,- but instead of this spring we sometimes substitute theside spring, 1', (shown in Fig. 12,) which operates upon the hand-leverm, as shown.

By the foregoing arrangements there is an increased simplicity in theworking parts. The strength is also increased, and the wood is not cutaway in front of the breech-pin.

Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of oursaid invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, weclaim 1. In a breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of thedrop-barrel having the lug Z, provided with front and rear recesses, ZZ", and the recess 6 at the upper portion of the breech end, the lowerbolt, (1, having the slot d and anglepiece n, the upper bolt, (2, thelever on, swinging on a fixed pivot, m", at the upper side of thebreech, a pivot, m, connecting the upper bolt with the lever at one sideof its pivot m and a connection between the rear end'of the upper boltand the rear end of the angle-piece n 011 the lower bolt, substantiallyas described.

2. In a breech-loading fire-arm, the combination of the drop-barrelhaving on its under side the projection 17, the separated lifters f f,rigidly connected by the transverse bridgepiece or bar 9, a singlepivot-pin, on which both the lifters are j ournaled above theirconnecting-bar, said pivot-pin being concentric with the joint of thebarrel and breech, and the pivoted hammers It, the said projection onthe barrel, when the latter is dropped, acting on the bridge-piece orbar to simultaneously swing the connected lifters and cook the hammers,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands this 22d day ofOctober, 1883.

\VILLIAM ANSON. JOHN DEELEY.

